Don't forget! Clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday

It's that time of year again – as autumn has hit Luxembourg and winter is approaching, clocks go back one hour in the night between Saturday and Sunday this weekend.

28.10.2017

It's that time of year again – as autumn has hit Luxembourg and winter is approaching, clocks go back one hour in the night between Saturday and Sunday this weekend.

As a result of the change, it will be light earlier in the morning – a welcome change for early risers – but darkness will also fall earlier in the evening.

Within the EU, clocks always go forward for daylight saving time on the last Sunday in March, to go back on the last Sunday in October. Elsewhere in the world, other daylight saving time regimes apply, while many countries do no use this practice at all.

Discussions have also frequently arisen in Europe over the usefulness of changing the clocks with the seasons. While some argue that this enables to save electricity, especially during daylight saving time, this has not been proven true by independent studies.

Arguments for "summer time" usually include the longer evenings during the sunny season, while criticism has arisen over the technical effort associated. People prone to sleeping difficulties are also known to suffer under the change.

In agriculture it has been observed that dairy cows need around two weeks to adjust to the time change and for milk production to go back to normal.

Whatever the objections, since it has not yet been decided otherwise, clocks will go back, as usual, from 3am to 2am in the night from October 28 to 29 this year.